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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (201513)9/11/2004 11:02:20 PM
From: denizen48  Read Replies (3) of 1574096
 
>>>1) Whenever "th" appears as a superscript, it is without a leading space. Whenever "th" appears as non-superscript, it is WITH a leading space. This is precisely as Microsoft Word would have handled these characters as typed. And to have replicated this with a Selectric, one would have had to change the type ball before superscripted "th" and NOT changed it before the others, but have remembered to insert a leading space (frankly, the opposite of what would have been the more likely arrangement, i.e., accidentally generating a space WHILE CHANGING the type ball);

2) While it is conceivable a custom made type ball could have provided for this arrangement, there is consensus agreement that (a) Proportionally spaced Selectrics of the day were rare, (b) the existence of such a type ball is doubtful and certainly hasn't been shown, (c) the likelihood of the military owning such a typewriter and type ball for use in general office applications is slim, at best;<<<<

This is what you consider a slam-dunk? For as many times as the military uses th-superscripted, I wouldn't be surprised that they would have even had it incorporated in their Selectrics.
No, if you want to prove forgery, you can't argue your point by making a forgery of your own. All of your general data-base arguments about proportional & Roman have been proven false.
All that's left is the space in front of the superscript argument in regards to WORD. Why do you think WORD does it? Because it looks better!!!! Now what makes you think that IBM didn't think about looks back then????????
Whatever, you're not really concerned about the truth, just about getting that miserable failure re-elected.
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